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Public lecture by Professor Gunther Kress (UCL Institute of Education, University of London) and Professor Theo van Leeuwen (Centre for Multimodal Communication, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, and Emeritus Professor in Media and Communication at the University of Technology, Sydney)
The Language Development & Cognition satellite will hold a mini poster conference to showcase the research of PhD students. For further information and a preliminary programme, please see here.
Diane Nelson and Janet Watson are convening the second Language at Leeds Endangered Languages workshop at the LHRI on 16th March. Mandana Seyfeddinipur, Director of ELDP, SOAS, will present and hold a practical session in the morning. Presentations from academic and PGR researchers of various endangered languages will take place in the afternoon.
The latest in our regular lunchtime research discussions
In this discussion, Simon Green will introduce ideas for developing a cross-University research project.
18th February 2015, 12pm – 1pm: Lunchtime research discussion, Leeds Humanities Research Institute, Seminar Room 1. Robbie Williams (Philosophy). Why be nice when interpreting the words of others?
As the awareness that language use is fundamentally multimodal gains traction across the board, challenging issues arise concerning how this can most effectively be studied. The idea that verbal language and its theoretical treatment may provide a suitable ‘template’ for signifying practices in general has been discussed and practiced at least since Saussure.
Film reviews are clearly a text type centred around evaluation; and, as with all genres, the ways in which evaluation is realised reflect – and contribute to constructing – the conventions and assumptions of the socio-cultural context that they inhabit. In this presentation I will outline a currently influential approach to the analysis of evaluation, the appraisal model.
November 19th, 12pm – 1pm: Lunchtime research discussion, Leeds Humanities Research Institute, Seminar Room 1. Professor Theo Raynor (Healthcare): Title to be announced
In this monthly lunchtime research discussion, Dr Cécile De Cat (Linguistics & Phonetics), will lead the dicussion on 'Second-language processing of English compounds'. The discussion will be held at Leeds Humanities Research Institute, Seminar Room 1.